Jennifer Granholm Quotes
When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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For obstacle racing, you wanna be as light, lean, and fast as possible. So, if I lift a lot of weights, I'm gonna be a little bit heavier, which will make it harder for me to hold myself up.
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The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
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I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.
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At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I resent limitations. I'm going to be this way for a while.
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Thus, neither my government nor myself, personally, are without ideals and responsibilities.
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Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.
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Being blonde means people decide on sight that you are much prettier and nicer than you really are, just as Americans automatically add 10 points to someone's IQ when they hear an English accent. Fact.
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If you're not acting, you're not an actor.
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The core of the person is what he or she loves, and that is bound up with what they worship - that insight recalibrates the radar for cultural analysis. The rituals and practices that form our loves spill out well beyond the sanctuary. Many secular liturgies are trying to get us to love some other kingdom and some other gods.
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We had a tiny budget for 'The Greatest,' which was the opposite of 'Wall Street.' We just kind of went in and did it. You've got four or five takes and then you've got to move on. We didn't even have trailers to stay in or anything.
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I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing 'have I labored,' neither has my exile been 'in vain.'
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Members of Congress I have the high privilege and distinct honour of presenting to you, his excellency Bertie Ahern (/ei/hern), the Taoiseach, the Prime Minister of Ireland
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Well, anytime I make a movie, I like to load it up with more things than you could ever catch on the first viewing.
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Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.
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When someone lives as a minority, they experience the world differently than those of us who live in the majority. We may occupy the same physical space, but we don't occupy the same psychic space.
